Each week, the Decorating Dissidence team send out a weekly newsletter! All our subscribers receive exclusive insights into the world of craft, making and design via reviews and interviews with contemporary makers, artists and curators. For paid subscribers, expect exclusive Q&As with craftmakers, curators, and creatives from around the world; plus a monthly download filled with recommendations and reading!
… Updates: Dissident Woolf, repair, and stylish homes
Each week, the Decorating Dissidence team send out a weekly newsletter on Substack! Our subscribers receive exclusive insights into the world of craft, making and design via reviews and interviews with contemporary makers, artists and curators.
Each month, we share a comprehensive roundup of the most compelling exhibitions, exciting opportunities, and latest releases that are at the forefront of the craft-and-art intersection – so you can stay up-to-date on the dynamic world of craft from the UK and beyond. We also bring you our monthly Modernist Maker Digest, delving into the stories of twentieth-century makers and their influence today.
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Here’s what we shared in April:
This introduction is my open love letter to Glitter.
Guest edited by Graham Feyl.
… Issue Seventeen: All That Glitters
In this essay, Kendal DeBoer explores the chintzy, gilded florist foils and cellophane-wrapped rats of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt.
… Jewel-Encrusted Rats in Ecclesiastical Garb: Art and Treasures for You, Honey
matt lambert on the power of disco balls
… Celestial to Terrestrial and the Trans Void: The Work of Andres Payan Estrada
Scarlet Aylmer shares what draws her to all things shiny in this blog on glitter as a cultural and natural phenomenon.
… A Testament to Glitter
Aziza Mirza shares a poem and abstract painting exploring how “all that glitters is not gold”.
cw: intimate partner violence
Guest edited by Janyce Denise Glasper
… Issue Sixteen: TEXT
“Home Is A Concept explores homes beyond borders through capturing people’s connection with each other and nature. These photos and prints are documentations of home as where I currently live (Vermont, U.S.A.), and where I am from (Suzhou, China).
… Spotlight: Home Is A Concept
Texts, images and objects – are all made up of animate and inanimate ‘beings’ that live inside of us as well as outside, and inside of each other like nested dolls…
… Essay: Image/Text/Object & the BODY
Maria Seda-Reeder examines the concept of public inscription and its diverse manifestations…
… The Writing on the Wall: Graffiti as a form of societal resistance
Julia Mallory shares her series of capes, created to ‘tell stories about ‘tell stories about Black folks’ relationship to labor, leisure, and loss’…
… My Cape is Hanging Somewhere in a Museum
The relationship between text and textiles is writ large at this perfectly crafted exhibition…
… Interview: ‘Poets in Vogue’ with Sarah Parker and Sophie Oliver
Caroline Harris dives into the experimental world of visual poetry…
… Vibrant ecosystems of poetic making
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